The People's Protection Units (YPG) was formed underground in 2011 to defend the people of Rojava against attacks from the SyrianBashar al-Assad regime and other reactionary forces as the war in Syria started.
Today, it is a force of 50,000 people and at the forefront of the revolution in Syria and the region.
Watch this short documentary to learn about the struggle, sacrifices and victories of this amazing force.

published:21 Mar 2017

views:30229

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People’s Defense Units, practicing self-organization through a communal lifestyle, based on our ideology of direct democracy, ecology and women’s empowerment and freedom.

published:25 Sep 2016

views:99140

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him.
Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the ISIS terror group.
Until then, the greatest peril Joe had encountered came when he was replacing roof tiles on blustery days in his home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now he found himself with a specialist Kurdish unit – called Sabotage – operating behind enemy lines on a freezing night in December and being ‘hunted like wild animals’.
Joe recalled: ‘We were sent out to blow up a road near the city of Al-Hawl. I saw the searchlight from some distance away and, like the others, I ran for my life. We knew it was an ISIS truck. This was a tactic they were using more frequently. Their aim is to drive into you and detonate.’
Joe, his commander and two others scattered. ‘We were running towards mounds and rocks, anything that would make it difficult for the truck to follow,’ he said. ‘My heart was pounding. It was getting closer and closer.’
With seconds to spare, help came from above. Behind him came a shattering explosion. His pursuer, only about 450ft away, had been hit by an air strike.
Joe said: ‘The relief was immense. Of all the things I faced out there, the suicide trucks were the worst.’
Last week Joe, a former squaddie, and Jack Holmes, 23, an IT worker from Bournemouth with no military training, flew home after more than a year fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the militia whose actions in north-eastern Syria have been supported by US-led coalition air strikes.
Read more: http://dailym.ai/24dmHEv

published:02 May 2016

views:358065

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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published:21 Jun 2015

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An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

published:29 Jul 2016

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published:30 Jun 2015

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A troop of female fighters has become a major force combating Islamic State (IS) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, YPJ, the Women's Protection Units is a women-only and pro-Kurdish militia set up in 2012 as a female brigade of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish military forces in Syria.
The group, in tandem with other Syrian Kurdish military forces, has been pushing west from the northeastern city of Hasakah for the past month to repel IS militants from the thin strip of land it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In the ranks of the YPJ, many fighters are in their early twenties or even younger when they were recruited to fight against extremist insurgencies.
The women undergo weeks of military training including basic training on how to use AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other heavy weaponry.
Nineteen-year-old Roj Anas is a sniper in the ranks of the YPJ militia.
"First you should steady the rifle and find the balance point, then estimate the range and predict the direction in which an enemy is heading. Suppose you have figured out how far away your enemy is, you take aim and watch how he moves. After you learn about his movement, you shoot. In this way you can always succeed," said Anas, while demonstrating how to use a sniper rifle.
She added that patience is the key to becoming a good sniper and that they usually train for hours or days to learn how to stay concentrated.
Anas said she was in high school before being recruited 18 months ago and trained to be a sniper on the front line. To this day, she still remembers the fear she felt at the moment she realized she would have to fight in the battlefield.
"Back then, I was very afraid and I thought I probably would never come back. We were here for two days before the fighting started and we kept asking each other, 'What are we supposed to do? What should we do when confronting Daesh?' I felt terrified from the bottom of my heart," Anas said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
But months of fighting has turned her into an experienced sniper, she said, adding that she has lost many companions to the war.
"I remember one time when Daesh was quickly withdrawing and we had conquered almost every part of that region except a school. There was a container filled with explosives and as we charged forward, it exploded. I heard many people screaming. Some of them were killed on the spot. And the saddest thing is, one of my friends died holding my hand," said Anas.
She said that even though they are young, all the fighters have made their wills and are ready to die.
According to official statistics from the YPG, there are currently a few thousand troops in the women's wing, and of the 40,000 to 50,000 Kurdish troops in Syria, about 35 percent are women, most of whom are not married.
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Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) has started to contribute its support to the YPG/YPJ combatants on the frontline of the war against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Rojava, northern Syria. Macer Gifford, a former British banker, who first initiated the unit as part of YPG’s medical activities, tells more about why and how he has been involved the liberation front in Rojava:

People's Protection Units

The People's Protection Units (Kurdish:Yekîneyên Parastina Gel‎, pronounced[jɑkinæjen pɑrɑstinɑ gæl]; YPG), also known as People's Defense Units, are the main armed service of the Kurdish Supreme Committee, the government of Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). The YPG is primarily Kurdish, but it also recruits Arabs, Turks, and westerners. There are Assyrian/Syriac Christian units integrated into its command structure (Sutoro and Syriac Military Council). The YPG was originally formed in 2004 by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Southern Kurdistan (i.e. northern Iraq) and was transferred to the service of the Kurdish Supreme Committee (which includes the PYD) in 2012. The YPG considers itself a democratic people's army and conducts internal elections as a method of appointing officers.

Women's Protection Units

The Women's Protection Units (YPJ) is the YPG's female brigade, which was set up in 2012. Kurdish media have said that YPJ troops became vital during the Siege of Kobanî.

Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), a Sunni Islamic group that aimed to establish an Islamic state in Iraq from 2006 to 2013

Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State, or Daesh (based on its Arabic acronym), an outgrowth of ISI with a greater geographic scope

See also

A brief history of the YPG

The People's Protection Units (YPG) was formed underground in 2011 to defend the people of Rojava against attacks from the SyrianBashar al-Assad regime and other reactionary forces as the war in Syria started.
Today, it is a force of 50,000 people and at the forefront of the revolution in Syria and the region.
Watch this short documentary to learn about the struggle, sacrifices and victories of this amazing force.

17:07

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People’s Defense Units, practicing self-organization through a communal lifestyle, based on our ideology of direct democracy, ecology and women’s empowerment and freedom.

3:05

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him.
Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the ISIS terror group.
Until then, the greatest peril Joe had encountered came when he was replacing roof tiles on blustery days in his home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now he found himself with a specialist Kurdish unit – called Sabotage – operating behind enemy lines on a freezing night in December and being ‘hunted like wild animals’.
Joe recalled: ‘We were sent out to blow up a road near the city of Al-Hawl. I saw the searchlight from some distance away and, like the others, I ran for my life. We knew it was an ISIS truck. This was a tactic they were using more frequently. Their aim is to drive into you and detonate.’
Joe, his commander and two others scattered. ‘We were running towards mounds and rocks, anything that would make it difficult for the truck to follow,’ he said. ‘My heart was pounding. It was getting closer and closer.’
With seconds to spare, help came from above. Behind him came a shattering explosion. His pursuer, only about 450ft away, had been hit by an air strike.
Joe said: ‘The relief was immense. Of all the things I faced out there, the suicide trucks were the worst.’
Last week Joe, a former squaddie, and Jack Holmes, 23, an IT worker from Bournemouth with no military training, flew home after more than a year fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the militia whose actions in north-eastern Syria have been supported by US-led coalition air strikes.
Read more: http://dailym.ai/24dmHEv

31:53

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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Her War: Women vs. ISIS (RT Documentary)

In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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46:35

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

2:04

Yekîneyên Parastina Gel [People's Protection Units][HD]

Yekîneyên Parastina Gel [People's Protection Units][HD]

Yekîneyên Parastina Gel [People's Protection Units][HD]

1:57

Young Kurdish Women on Front Line against IS in Syria

Young Kurdish Women on Front Line against IS in Syria

Young Kurdish Women on Front Line against IS in Syria

A troop of female fighters has become a major force combating Islamic State (IS) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, YPJ, the Women's Protection Units is a women-only and pro-Kurdish militia set up in 2012 as a female brigade of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish military forces in Syria.
The group, in tandem with other Syrian Kurdish military forces, has been pushing west from the northeastern city of Hasakah for the past month to repel IS militants from the thin strip of land it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In the ranks of the YPJ, many fighters are in their early twenties or even younger when they were recruited to fight against extremist insurgencies.
The women undergo weeks of military training including basic training on how to use AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other heavy weaponry.
Nineteen-year-old Roj Anas is a sniper in the ranks of the YPJ militia.
"First you should steady the rifle and find the balance point, then estimate the range and predict the direction in which an enemy is heading. Suppose you have figured out how far away your enemy is, you take aim and watch how he moves. After you learn about his movement, you shoot. In this way you can always succeed," said Anas, while demonstrating how to use a sniper rifle.
She added that patience is the key to becoming a good sniper and that they usually train for hours or days to learn how to stay concentrated.
Anas said she was in high school before being recruited 18 months ago and trained to be a sniper on the front line. To this day, she still remembers the fear she felt at the moment she realized she would have to fight in the battlefield.
"Back then, I was very afraid and I thought I probably would never come back. We were here for two days before the fighting started and we kept asking each other, 'What are we supposed to do? What should we do when confronting Daesh?' I felt terrified from the bottom of my heart," Anas said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
But months of fighting has turned her into an experienced sniper, she said, adding that she has lost many companions to the war.
"I remember one time when Daesh was quickly withdrawing and we had conquered almost every part of that region except a school. There was a container filled with explosives and as we charged forward, it exploded. I heard many people screaming. Some of them were killed on the spot. And the saddest thing is, one of my friends died holding my hand," said Anas.
She said that even though they are young, all the fighters have made their wills and are ready to die.
According to official statistics from the YPG, there are currently a few thousand troops in the women's wing, and of the 40,000 to 50,000 Kurdish troops in Syria, about 35 percent are women, most of whom are not married.
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3:57

Foreign Volunteers in YPG’s Tactical Medical Unit (TMU)

Foreign Volunteers in YPG’s Tactical Medical Unit (TMU)

Foreign Volunteers in YPG’s Tactical Medical Unit (TMU)

Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) has started to contribute its support to the YPG/YPJ combatants on the frontline of the war against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Rojava, northern Syria. Macer Gifford, a former British banker, who first initiated the unit as part of YPG’s medical activities, tells more about why and how he has been involved the liberation front in Rojava:

YPJ We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People's Protection Units

YPJ We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People's Protection Units

YPJ We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People's Protection Units

2:29

Who Are The Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS?

Who Are The Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS?

Who Are The Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS?

An all-female army from Syria is fighting ISIS -- and kicking ass. The YPJ has killed over 100 members of the terrorist group and continues to be one of the few volunteer-based militia on the front lines of the conflict. So who are these women rumored to be feared by The Islamic State? TestTube Daily takes a look.
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"The YPJ is affiliated with the People's ProtectionUnit (YPG), an armed militia group which is an official part of the governing body of Kurdish territory in Syria known the Kurdish Supreme Committee. The YPJ, the Kurdish female militia that is fighting Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the primarily-Kurdish north. Around 35% of the Democratic Union of Kurdistan (PYD)-controlled People's Defense Units (YPG) fighters in Syria are women."
Heroine of Kobani: Kurdish FemaleFighterRehana 'Kills 100 Isis Jihadis' Single-handedly
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Meet ISIS's Worst Nightmare: An All-Women Battalion Of Kurdish Fighters
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Kurdish Women's Revolution http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Kurdish-womens-revolution-344927
Frontline Isis: The Real Story of Narin Afrini and the Kurdish Female 'Lions' Terrorising Islamic State
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25:01

YPJ Kurdish Female Fighters: A Day in Syria

YPJ Kurdish Female Fighters: A Day in Syria

YPJ Kurdish Female Fighters: A Day in Syria

Female fighters of the pro-Kurdish Yekineyen Parastina Jin (WomenProtection Units) (YPJ) tell their stories,
their experiences, why they joined and what they fight for in this women-only militia amid the civil war in Syria.
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Clashes between IS forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) near the Turkish-Syrian border

Clashes between IS forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) near the Turkish-Syrian border

Clashes between IS forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) near the Turkish-Syrian border

Clashes between Islamic State forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) fighters continued on Wednesday close to the Turkish-Syrian border, as the IS group tried to advance in the region towards the Syrian city of Kobani.
Locals from the village of Karaca watched the clashes take place from the top of a hill on the Turkish side of the border.
"Islamic State tanks and vehicles entered BobanVillage on the Syrian side. They shelled the place with tanks and mortars. We could hear them falling on those hills," said Halil Aslan, a local villager.
Refugees have been flooding into Turkey from Syria since last Thursday, escaping an Islamic State group offensive that has pushed the conflict within sight of the Turkish border.
Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday that some 130-thousand Syrian refugees had reached Turkey in the preceding five days, fleeing the advance of Islamic State extremists, and warned the number could rise further as the militants press ahead with an onslaught.
The al-Qaida breakaway group - which says it wants to establish an Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by a harsh version of Islamic law in territory it captured straddling the Syria-Iraq border - has in recent days advanced into Kurdish regions of Syria that border Turkey.
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5:17

YPJ Peshmerga's - The Women's Protection Units (Rojava Kurdistan)

YPJ Peshmerga's - The Women's Protection Units (Rojava Kurdistan)

YPJ Peshmerga's - The Women's Protection Units (Rojava Kurdistan)

The Women's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jinê), commonly known as the YPJ, are an armed Kurdish group which was set up in 2012 as "the female brigade of the leftist YPG militia". The YPG/YPJ are "the armed wing of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syria's predominantly Kurdish north" (called Rojava).
The proportion of women among about 45,000 to 50,000 YPG-fighters is estimated at around one third. According to other data should be women around 40 percent of the YPG-members. The Women had their own "woman defense units" (ypj). According to media reports, it was assumed that the YPG over 10,000 fighters in battles against inserting ISIS. The ypj-fighters received a four-week military training, in which it, inter alia, to deal with heavy machine guns, anti-tank grenade launchers and the Soviet-Russian assault rifle AK-47 ("Kalashnikov") learned.
The "all-female militia group grew out of the Kurdish resistance movement", and it "currently has over 7,000 (or 10,000, according to TeleSur) volunteer fighters between the ages of 18-40".They receive "no funding from the international community and the women are reliant on the Kurdish community for supplies and food". The YPJ has joined its brother organization, the YPG, in fighting against any group that has the intention of bringing the Syrian Civil War to Kurdish inhabited areas. It has come under increased attacks from ISIS militants in western Kurdistan (Syria) and is "currently involved in the fight for the key border town of Kobane in western Kurdistan".
The group "played a critical role in rescuing the thousands of Kurdish Yazidis (Ezidi) trapped on MountShengal (Sinjar) by IS fighters" in August 2014. One fighter emphasized: "we need to control the area ourselves without depending on [the government]... They can't protect us from [ISIS], we have to protect ourselves [and] we defend everyone...no matter what race or religion they are".
The group had been praised by both socialist and non-socialist feminists for "confront[ing] traditional gender expectations in the region" and "redefining the role of women in conflict in the region". One YPJ leader said: "I don't want to get married or have children or be in the house all day... I want to be free".
According to photographer Erin Trieb, "the YPJ is in itself a feminist movement, even if it is not their main mission". She asserted that "they want 'equality' between women and men, and a part of why they joined was to develop and advance the perceptions about women in their culture. They can be strong and be leader".
Various Kurdish media agency indicate that "YPJ troops have become vital in the battle against I.S." in Kobane

A brief history of the YPG

The People's Protection Units (YPG) was formed underground in 2011 to defend the people of Rojava against attacks from the SyrianBashar al-Assad regime and other reactionary forces as the war in Syria started.
Today, it is a force of 50,000 people and at the forefront of the revolution in Syria and the region.
Watch this short documentary to learn about the struggle, sacrifices and victories of this amazing force.

published: 21 Mar 2017

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People’s Defense Units, practicing self-organization through a communal lifestyle, based on our ideology of direct democracy, ecology and women’s empowerment and freedom.

published: 25 Sep 2016

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him.
Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the ISIS terror group.
Until then, the greatest peril Joe had encountered came when he was replacing roof tiles on blustery days in his home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now he found himself with a specialist Kurdish unit – called Sabotage – operating behind enemy lines on a freezing ni...

published: 02 May 2016

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a soc...

Her War: Women vs. ISIS (RT Documentary)

In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

published: 29 Jul 2016

Yekîneyên Parastina Gel [People's Protection Units][HD]

published: 30 Jun 2015

Young Kurdish Women on Front Line against IS in Syria

A troop of female fighters has become a major force combating Islamic State (IS) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, YPJ, the Women's Protection Units is a women-only and pro-Kurdish militia set up in 2012 as a female brigade of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish military forces in Syria.
The group, in tandem with other Syrian Kurdish military forces, has been pushing west from the northeastern city of Hasakah for the past month to repel IS militants from the thin strip of land it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In the ranks of the YPJ, many fighters are in their early twenties or even younger when they were recruited to fight against extremist insurgencies.
The women undergo weeks of mil...

published: 11 Aug 2015

Foreign Volunteers in YPG’s Tactical Medical Unit (TMU)

Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) has started to contribute its support to the YPG/YPJ combatants on the frontline of the war against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Rojava, northern Syria. Macer Gifford, a former British banker, who first initiated the unit as part of YPG’s medical activities, tells more about why and how he has been involved the liberation front in Rojava:

YPJ Kurdish Female Fighters: A Day in Syria

Female fighters of the pro-Kurdish Yekineyen Parastina Jin (WomenProtection Units) (YPJ) tell their stories,
their experiences, why they joined and what they fight for in this women-only militia amid the civil war in Syria.
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Rozh Ahmad
2014

Clashes between IS forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) near the Turkish-Syrian border

Clashes between Islamic State forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) fighters continued on Wednesday close to the Turkish-Syrian border, as the IS group tried to advance in the region towards the Syrian city of Kobani.
Locals from the village of Karaca watched the clashes take place from the top of a hill on the Turkish side of the border.
"Islamic State tanks and vehicles entered BobanVillage on the Syrian side. They shelled the place with tanks and mortars. We could hear them falling on those hills," said Halil Aslan, a local villager.
Refugees have been flooding into Turkey from Syria since last Thursday, escaping an Islamic State group offensive that has pushed the conflict within sight of the Turkish border.
Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday that some 130...

published: 03 Aug 2015

YPJ Peshmerga's - The Women's Protection Units (Rojava Kurdistan)

The Women's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jinê), commonly known as the YPJ, are an armed Kurdish group which was set up in 2012 as "the female brigade of the leftist YPG militia". The YPG/YPJ are "the armed wing of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syria's predominantly Kurdish north" (called Rojava).
The proportion of women among about 45,000 to 50,000 YPG-fighters is estimated at around one third. According to other data should be women around 40 percent of the YPG-members. The Women had their own "woman defense units" (ypj). According to media reports, it was assumed that the YPG over 10,000 fighters in battles against inserting ISIS. The ypj-fighters received a four-week military training, in which it, inter alia, to deal with...

The People's Protection Units (YPG) was formed underground in 2011 to defend the people of Rojava against attacks from the SyrianBashar al-Assad regime and other reactionary forces as the war in Syria started.
Today, it is a force of 50,000 people and at the forefront of the revolution in Syria and the region.
Watch this short documentary to learn about the struggle, sacrifices and victories of this amazing force.

The People's Protection Units (YPG) was formed underground in 2011 to defend the people of Rojava against attacks from the SyrianBashar al-Assad regime and other reactionary forces as the war in Syria started.
Today, it is a force of 50,000 people and at the forefront of the revolution in Syria and the region.
Watch this short documentary to learn about the struggle, sacrifices and victories of this amazing force.

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autono...

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People’s Defense Units, practicing self-organization through a communal lifestyle, based on our ideology of direct democracy, ecology and women’s empowerment and freedom.

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People’s Defense Units, practicing self-organization through a communal lifestyle, based on our ideology of direct democracy, ecology and women’s empowerment and freedom.

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to ...

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him.
Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the ISIS terror group.
Until then, the greatest peril Joe had encountered came when he was replacing roof tiles on blustery days in his home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now he found himself with a specialist Kurdish unit – called Sabotage – operating behind enemy lines on a freezing night in December and being ‘hunted like wild animals’.
Joe recalled: ‘We were sent out to blow up a road near the city of Al-Hawl. I saw the searchlight from some distance away and, like the others, I ran for my life. We knew it was an ISIS truck. This was a tactic they were using more frequently. Their aim is to drive into you and detonate.’
Joe, his commander and two others scattered. ‘We were running towards mounds and rocks, anything that would make it difficult for the truck to follow,’ he said. ‘My heart was pounding. It was getting closer and closer.’
With seconds to spare, help came from above. Behind him came a shattering explosion. His pursuer, only about 450ft away, had been hit by an air strike.
Joe said: ‘The relief was immense. Of all the things I faced out there, the suicide trucks were the worst.’
Last week Joe, a former squaddie, and Jack Holmes, 23, an IT worker from Bournemouth with no military training, flew home after more than a year fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the militia whose actions in north-eastern Syria have been supported by US-led coalition air strikes.
Read more: http://dailym.ai/24dmHEv

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him.
Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the ISIS terror group.
Until then, the greatest peril Joe had encountered came when he was replacing roof tiles on blustery days in his home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now he found himself with a specialist Kurdish unit – called Sabotage – operating behind enemy lines on a freezing night in December and being ‘hunted like wild animals’.
Joe recalled: ‘We were sent out to blow up a road near the city of Al-Hawl. I saw the searchlight from some distance away and, like the others, I ran for my life. We knew it was an ISIS truck. This was a tactic they were using more frequently. Their aim is to drive into you and detonate.’
Joe, his commander and two others scattered. ‘We were running towards mounds and rocks, anything that would make it difficult for the truck to follow,’ he said. ‘My heart was pounding. It was getting closer and closer.’
With seconds to spare, help came from above. Behind him came a shattering explosion. His pursuer, only about 450ft away, had been hit by an air strike.
Joe said: ‘The relief was immense. Of all the things I faced out there, the suicide trucks were the worst.’
Last week Joe, a former squaddie, and Jack Holmes, 23, an IT worker from Bournemouth with no military training, flew home after more than a year fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the militia whose actions in north-eastern Syria have been supported by US-led coalition air strikes.
Read more: http://dailym.ai/24dmHEv

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

A troop of female fighters has become a major force combating Islamic State (IS) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, YPJ, the Women's Protection Units is a women-only and pro-Kurdish militia set up in 2012 as a female brigade of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish military forces in Syria.
The group, in tandem with other Syrian Kurdish military forces, has been pushing west from the northeastern city of Hasakah for the past month to repel IS militants from the thin strip of land it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In the ranks of the YPJ, many fighters are in their early twenties or even younger when they were recruited to fight against extremist insurgencies.
The women undergo weeks of military training including basic training on how to use AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other heavy weaponry.
Nineteen-year-old Roj Anas is a sniper in the ranks of the YPJ militia.
"First you should steady the rifle and find the balance point, then estimate the range and predict the direction in which an enemy is heading. Suppose you have figured out how far away your enemy is, you take aim and watch how he moves. After you learn about his movement, you shoot. In this way you can always succeed," said Anas, while demonstrating how to use a sniper rifle.
She added that patience is the key to becoming a good sniper and that they usually train for hours or days to learn how to stay concentrated.
Anas said she was in high school before being recruited 18 months ago and trained to be a sniper on the front line. To this day, she still remembers the fear she felt at the moment she realized she would have to fight in the battlefield.
"Back then, I was very afraid and I thought I probably would never come back. We were here for two days before the fighting started and we kept asking each other, 'What are we supposed to do? What should we do when confronting Daesh?' I felt terrified from the bottom of my heart," Anas said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
But months of fighting has turned her into an experienced sniper, she said, adding that she has lost many companions to the war.
"I remember one time when Daesh was quickly withdrawing and we had conquered almost every part of that region except a school. There was a container filled with explosives and as we charged forward, it exploded. I heard many people screaming. Some of them were killed on the spot. And the saddest thing is, one of my friends died holding my hand," said Anas.
She said that even though they are young, all the fighters have made their wills and are ready to die.
According to official statistics from the YPG, there are currently a few thousand troops in the women's wing, and of the 40,000 to 50,000 Kurdish troops in Syria, about 35 percent are women, most of whom are not married.
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A troop of female fighters has become a major force combating Islamic State (IS) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, YPJ, the Women's Protection Units is a women-only and pro-Kurdish militia set up in 2012 as a female brigade of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish military forces in Syria.
The group, in tandem with other Syrian Kurdish military forces, has been pushing west from the northeastern city of Hasakah for the past month to repel IS militants from the thin strip of land it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In the ranks of the YPJ, many fighters are in their early twenties or even younger when they were recruited to fight against extremist insurgencies.
The women undergo weeks of military training including basic training on how to use AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other heavy weaponry.
Nineteen-year-old Roj Anas is a sniper in the ranks of the YPJ militia.
"First you should steady the rifle and find the balance point, then estimate the range and predict the direction in which an enemy is heading. Suppose you have figured out how far away your enemy is, you take aim and watch how he moves. After you learn about his movement, you shoot. In this way you can always succeed," said Anas, while demonstrating how to use a sniper rifle.
She added that patience is the key to becoming a good sniper and that they usually train for hours or days to learn how to stay concentrated.
Anas said she was in high school before being recruited 18 months ago and trained to be a sniper on the front line. To this day, she still remembers the fear she felt at the moment she realized she would have to fight in the battlefield.
"Back then, I was very afraid and I thought I probably would never come back. We were here for two days before the fighting started and we kept asking each other, 'What are we supposed to do? What should we do when confronting Daesh?' I felt terrified from the bottom of my heart," Anas said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
But months of fighting has turned her into an experienced sniper, she said, adding that she has lost many companions to the war.
"I remember one time when Daesh was quickly withdrawing and we had conquered almost every part of that region except a school. There was a container filled with explosives and as we charged forward, it exploded. I heard many people screaming. Some of them were killed on the spot. And the saddest thing is, one of my friends died holding my hand," said Anas.
She said that even though they are young, all the fighters have made their wills and are ready to die.
According to official statistics from the YPG, there are currently a few thousand troops in the women's wing, and of the 40,000 to 50,000 Kurdish troops in Syria, about 35 percent are women, most of whom are not married.
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Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) has started to contribute its support to the YPG/YPJ combatants on the frontline of the war against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Rojava, northern Syria. Macer Gifford, a former British banker, who first initiated the unit as part of YPG’s medical activities, tells more about why and how he has been involved the liberation front in Rojava:

Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) has started to contribute its support to the YPG/YPJ combatants on the frontline of the war against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Rojava, northern Syria. Macer Gifford, a former British banker, who first initiated the unit as part of YPG’s medical activities, tells more about why and how he has been involved the liberation front in Rojava:

Who Are The Kurdish Women Fighting ISIS?

An all-female army from Syria is fighting ISIS -- and kicking ass. The YPJ has killed over 100 members of the terrorist group and continues to be one of the few...

An all-female army from Syria is fighting ISIS -- and kicking ass. The YPJ has killed over 100 members of the terrorist group and continues to be one of the few volunteer-based militia on the front lines of the conflict. So who are these women rumored to be feared by The Islamic State? TestTube Daily takes a look.
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"The YPJ is affiliated with the People's ProtectionUnit (YPG), an armed militia group which is an official part of the governing body of Kurdish territory in Syria known the Kurdish Supreme Committee. The YPJ, the Kurdish female militia that is fighting Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the primarily-Kurdish north. Around 35% of the Democratic Union of Kurdistan (PYD)-controlled People's Defense Units (YPG) fighters in Syria are women."
Heroine of Kobani: Kurdish FemaleFighterRehana 'Kills 100 Isis Jihadis' Single-handedly
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/heroine-kobani-kurdish-female-fighter-rehana-kills-100-isis-jihadis-single-handedly-1469989
Meet ISIS's Worst Nightmare: An All-Women Battalion Of Kurdish Fighters
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/167994-meet-isiss-worst-nightmare-women-battalion-kurdish-fighters/
Kurdish Women's Revolution http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Kurdish-womens-revolution-344927
Frontline Isis: The Real Story of Narin Afrini and the Kurdish Female 'Lions' Terrorising Islamic State
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/frontline-isis-real-story-narin-afrini-kurdish-female-lions-terrorising-islamic-front-1470119
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An all-female army from Syria is fighting ISIS -- and kicking ass. The YPJ has killed over 100 members of the terrorist group and continues to be one of the few volunteer-based militia on the front lines of the conflict. So who are these women rumored to be feared by The Islamic State? TestTube Daily takes a look.
Learn More:
TRAC: YPJ (Women's Protection Unit)
http://www.trackingterrorism.org/group/ypj-womens-protection-unit
"The YPJ is affiliated with the People's ProtectionUnit (YPG), an armed militia group which is an official part of the governing body of Kurdish territory in Syria known the Kurdish Supreme Committee. The YPJ, the Kurdish female militia that is fighting Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) in the primarily-Kurdish north. Around 35% of the Democratic Union of Kurdistan (PYD)-controlled People's Defense Units (YPG) fighters in Syria are women."
Heroine of Kobani: Kurdish FemaleFighterRehana 'Kills 100 Isis Jihadis' Single-handedly
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/heroine-kobani-kurdish-female-fighter-rehana-kills-100-isis-jihadis-single-handedly-1469989
Meet ISIS's Worst Nightmare: An All-Women Battalion Of Kurdish Fighters
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/08/167994-meet-isiss-worst-nightmare-women-battalion-kurdish-fighters/
Kurdish Women's Revolution http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/The-Kurdish-womens-revolution-344927
Frontline Isis: The Real Story of Narin Afrini and the Kurdish Female 'Lions' Terrorising Islamic State
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/frontline-isis-real-story-narin-afrini-kurdish-female-lions-terrorising-islamic-front-1470119
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YPJ Kurdish Female Fighters: A Day in Syria

Female fighters of the pro-Kurdish Yekineyen Parastina Jin (WomenProtection Units) (YPJ) tell their stories,
their experiences, why they joined and what they ...

Female fighters of the pro-Kurdish Yekineyen Parastina Jin (WomenProtection Units) (YPJ) tell their stories,
their experiences, why they joined and what they fight for in this women-only militia amid the civil war in Syria.
Filmed & Produced
by
Rozh Ahmad
2014

Female fighters of the pro-Kurdish Yekineyen Parastina Jin (WomenProtection Units) (YPJ) tell their stories,
their experiences, why they joined and what they fight for in this women-only militia amid the civil war in Syria.
Filmed & Produced
by
Rozh Ahmad
2014

Clashes between Islamic State forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) fighters continued on Wednesday close to the Turkish-Syrian border, as the IS group tried to advance in the region towards the Syrian city of Kobani.
Locals from the village of Karaca watched the clashes take place from the top of a hill on the Turkish side of the border.
"Islamic State tanks and vehicles entered BobanVillage on the Syrian side. They shelled the place with tanks and mortars. We could hear them falling on those hills," said Halil Aslan, a local villager.
Refugees have been flooding into Turkey from Syria since last Thursday, escaping an Islamic State group offensive that has pushed the conflict within sight of the Turkish border.
Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday that some 130-thousand Syrian refugees had reached Turkey in the preceding five days, fleeing the advance of Islamic State extremists, and warned the number could rise further as the militants press ahead with an onslaught.
The al-Qaida breakaway group - which says it wants to establish an Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by a harsh version of Islamic law in territory it captured straddling the Syria-Iraq border - has in recent days advanced into Kurdish regions of Syria that border Turkey.
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Clashes between Islamic State forces and Kurdish YPG (People's Protection Units) fighters continued on Wednesday close to the Turkish-Syrian border, as the IS group tried to advance in the region towards the Syrian city of Kobani.
Locals from the village of Karaca watched the clashes take place from the top of a hill on the Turkish side of the border.
"Islamic State tanks and vehicles entered BobanVillage on the Syrian side. They shelled the place with tanks and mortars. We could hear them falling on those hills," said Halil Aslan, a local villager.
Refugees have been flooding into Turkey from Syria since last Thursday, escaping an Islamic State group offensive that has pushed the conflict within sight of the Turkish border.
Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Monday that some 130-thousand Syrian refugees had reached Turkey in the preceding five days, fleeing the advance of Islamic State extremists, and warned the number could rise further as the militants press ahead with an onslaught.
The al-Qaida breakaway group - which says it wants to establish an Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by a harsh version of Islamic law in territory it captured straddling the Syria-Iraq border - has in recent days advanced into Kurdish regions of Syria that border Turkey.
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The Women's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jinê), commonly known as the YPJ, are an armed Kurdish group which was set up in 2012 as "the female brigade of the leftist YPG militia". The YPG/YPJ are "the armed wing of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syria's predominantly Kurdish north" (called Rojava).
The proportion of women among about 45,000 to 50,000 YPG-fighters is estimated at around one third. According to other data should be women around 40 percent of the YPG-members. The Women had their own "woman defense units" (ypj). According to media reports, it was assumed that the YPG over 10,000 fighters in battles against inserting ISIS. The ypj-fighters received a four-week military training, in which it, inter alia, to deal with heavy machine guns, anti-tank grenade launchers and the Soviet-Russian assault rifle AK-47 ("Kalashnikov") learned.
The "all-female militia group grew out of the Kurdish resistance movement", and it "currently has over 7,000 (or 10,000, according to TeleSur) volunteer fighters between the ages of 18-40".They receive "no funding from the international community and the women are reliant on the Kurdish community for supplies and food". The YPJ has joined its brother organization, the YPG, in fighting against any group that has the intention of bringing the Syrian Civil War to Kurdish inhabited areas. It has come under increased attacks from ISIS militants in western Kurdistan (Syria) and is "currently involved in the fight for the key border town of Kobane in western Kurdistan".
The group "played a critical role in rescuing the thousands of Kurdish Yazidis (Ezidi) trapped on MountShengal (Sinjar) by IS fighters" in August 2014. One fighter emphasized: "we need to control the area ourselves without depending on [the government]... They can't protect us from [ISIS], we have to protect ourselves [and] we defend everyone...no matter what race or religion they are".
The group had been praised by both socialist and non-socialist feminists for "confront[ing] traditional gender expectations in the region" and "redefining the role of women in conflict in the region". One YPJ leader said: "I don't want to get married or have children or be in the house all day... I want to be free".
According to photographer Erin Trieb, "the YPJ is in itself a feminist movement, even if it is not their main mission". She asserted that "they want 'equality' between women and men, and a part of why they joined was to develop and advance the perceptions about women in their culture. They can be strong and be leader".
Various Kurdish media agency indicate that "YPJ troops have become vital in the battle against I.S." in Kobane

The Women's Protection Units (Kurdish: Yekîneyên Parastina Jinê), commonly known as the YPJ, are an armed Kurdish group which was set up in 2012 as "the female brigade of the leftist YPG militia". The YPG/YPJ are "the armed wing of a Kurdish coalition that has taken de facto control over a sizable chunk of Syria's predominantly Kurdish north" (called Rojava).
The proportion of women among about 45,000 to 50,000 YPG-fighters is estimated at around one third. According to other data should be women around 40 percent of the YPG-members. The Women had their own "woman defense units" (ypj). According to media reports, it was assumed that the YPG over 10,000 fighters in battles against inserting ISIS. The ypj-fighters received a four-week military training, in which it, inter alia, to deal with heavy machine guns, anti-tank grenade launchers and the Soviet-Russian assault rifle AK-47 ("Kalashnikov") learned.
The "all-female militia group grew out of the Kurdish resistance movement", and it "currently has over 7,000 (or 10,000, according to TeleSur) volunteer fighters between the ages of 18-40".They receive "no funding from the international community and the women are reliant on the Kurdish community for supplies and food". The YPJ has joined its brother organization, the YPG, in fighting against any group that has the intention of bringing the Syrian Civil War to Kurdish inhabited areas. It has come under increased attacks from ISIS militants in western Kurdistan (Syria) and is "currently involved in the fight for the key border town of Kobane in western Kurdistan".
The group "played a critical role in rescuing the thousands of Kurdish Yazidis (Ezidi) trapped on MountShengal (Sinjar) by IS fighters" in August 2014. One fighter emphasized: "we need to control the area ourselves without depending on [the government]... They can't protect us from [ISIS], we have to protect ourselves [and] we defend everyone...no matter what race or religion they are".
The group had been praised by both socialist and non-socialist feminists for "confront[ing] traditional gender expectations in the region" and "redefining the role of women in conflict in the region". One YPJ leader said: "I don't want to get married or have children or be in the house all day... I want to be free".
According to photographer Erin Trieb, "the YPJ is in itself a feminist movement, even if it is not their main mission". She asserted that "they want 'equality' between women and men, and a part of why they joined was to develop and advance the perceptions about women in their culture. They can be strong and be leader".
Various Kurdish media agency indicate that "YPJ troops have become vital in the battle against I.S." in Kobane

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a soc...

published: 06 Apr 2016

Her War: Women vs. ISIS (RT Documentary)

In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

published: 29 Jul 2016

Rojava: Syria's Unknown War

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As Syria's bloody civil war enters its third year, fighting has reached the country's Kurdish-dominated northeast, a region until recently almost untouched by the conflict. The KurdishPYD party and its YPG militia, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in neighboring Turkey, took over control of much of Hassakeh province from the Assad regime in the summer of 2012, and with it control of Syria's precious oilfields.
But the PYD's hopes of staying neutral in the conflict and building an autonomous Kurdish state were dashed when clashes broke out with Syrian rebel forces in the strategic border city of Ras al-Ayn. That encounter quickly escalated into an all-out war between the Kurds and a powerful all...

Kurdish Female Fighters - A Day in Syria

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/turkeys-pkk-fighters-iraq-syria-revive-kurdish-cause-n189201
Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world, around 40 million, marginalized with no state of their own. They stretch across an area including Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The only internationally recognized Kurdish entity exists in Iraq with its own regional government, a booming economy, and security forces known as the Peshmerga.
Until 1991, it was illegal to speak Kurdish in public in Turkey. Broadcasting in Kurdish was banned until 2002, and until 2003, parents were forbidden to give their children Kurdish names. Kurdish-language public education is still heavily contested, with many Kurdish children forced to take classes in Turkish, a language they rarely learn at home.
The...

published: 31 Aug 2014

The Complex History and Relations of the Kurdish YPG, Syria, and US

Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek discusses the history of the PKK, Turkey's brutally violent repression of the Kurds, and the complex relations between the YPG, Syria, and US.
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Fighting Islamic State: Big Phil's War | Special Report

PhilCampion, a former SAS soldier and a veteran of just about every major conflict zone in the world, travels to the front line in Syria and Iraq to meet the men and women taking the fight to Islamic State.
Known as 'Big Phil', he filmed for Sky with both the YPG and Kurdish Peshmerga, observing their war against a well-equipped and motivated enemy.
He experienced some of the worst battles of his life while embedded with the Kurds and met the all-female fighting units of the YPJ, described as a secret weapon of the war.
Are those fighting Islamic State properly equipped for battle? And is this a fight they can win? Find out in our special report.
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published: 14 Oct 2015

Hunting ISIS With Kurdish Female Fighters [Documentary HD/Kurds]

A fierce war is raging in Syria. A unit of fearless female fighters are battling the world’s most brutal enemy, ISIS. And they’re winning. Deep within Kurdish Syria, the YPJ, made up of local women, are fighting the barbaric terrorist movement. Now, six months after she first met them, Tara Brown returns to the war zone to see firsthand just how these extraordinary female fighters are winning the war. They are brave women who have lost family and friends, but won’t let anything weaken their resolve to defeat ISIS.

published: 18 Oct 2015

Syria War 2018 - Battle of Afrin: Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Firefights and Clashes

*DISCLAIMER* This footage is part of a war archive of the war in Syria and should be viewed as an educational, historical and documentary film about the military conflict. This footage is also to be taken as a raw documentary on the events of the conflict in Syria. The video STRICTLY for informational, documentary and historical purposes only! This footage is not meant to glorify war or violence. The video is not intended to offend anyone. This footage is not meant to be violent in any way. I am only sharing this footage for the purposes of news reporting, sharing important information with the public and educating.
War in Syria 2018 - Battle of Afrin(code-named Operation OliveBranch).
In January 2018, the Turkish military launched a military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin Di...

The road to ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa, has been long and hard. The battle rages in the suburbs of the Syrian city. Improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, sniper fire and grenade-dropping drones have been deployed by the surrounded terrorists.
This film features the stories of fighters in the Kurdish PeopleProtection Units (YPG), as well as European volunteers who joined them. There are also stories of military hospital staff. Dr. Akhiv, a veteran military doctor considers his work a “sacred calling.” Adham, a frontline nurse, joined the field hospital after his brother was killed fighting ISIS. Sema, a Kurdish female commander, left her family to join the fight. “We’re not fighting for a certain nation. Humanity is what we’re fighting for,” she says.
Some Europeans hav...

BBC Our World - ROJAVA : SYRIA'S SECRET REVOLUTION

Is the Middle East’s newest country a territory called “Rojava”? Out of the chaos of Syria’s civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged an egalitarian, multi-ethnic mini-state run on communal lines. But with ISIS Jihadists attacking them at every opportunity — especially around the beleaguered city of Kobane, how long can this idealistic social experiment last? From the frontlines to the refugee camps, Mehran Bozorgnia filmed in Rojava for the BBC'sOur World and has gained exclusive access and a revealing snapshot of Syria’s secret revolution.
COPYRIGHT: Mehran Bozorgnia / Bozorgnia Films / 2014

published: 14 Nov 2014

European volunteers in Syrian Kurdistan against ISIS - 2015 Documentary

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

Check out all the episodes of VICENews here: http://bit.ly/PILfBe
As Syria's bloody civil war enters its third year, fighting has reached the country's Kurdish-dominated northeast, a region until recently almost untouched by the conflict. The KurdishPYD party and its YPG militia, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in neighboring Turkey, took over control of much of Hassakeh province from the Assad regime in the summer of 2012, and with it control of Syria's precious oilfields.
But the PYD's hopes of staying neutral in the conflict and building an autonomous Kurdish state were dashed when clashes broke out with Syrian rebel forces in the strategic border city of Ras al-Ayn. That encounter quickly escalated into an all-out war between the Kurds and a powerful alliance of jihadist groups, including the al-Qaeda affiliates ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.
In September of 2013, VICE crossed the border into Syria's Kurdish region to document the YPG's counteroffensive against the jihadists, who had struck deep into rural Hassakeh in an attempt to surround and capture Ras al-Ayn. With unparalleled access to the Kurdish and Syrian Christian fighters on the frontlines, we found ourselves witnessing a bitter and almost unreported conflict within the Syrian war, where the Assad regime is a neutral spectator in a life or death struggle between jihadist-led rebels and Kurdish nationalists, pitting village against village and neighbor against neighbor.
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As Syria's bloody civil war enters its third year, fighting has reached the country's Kurdish-dominated northeast, a region until recently almost untouched by the conflict. The KurdishPYD party and its YPG militia, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in neighboring Turkey, took over control of much of Hassakeh province from the Assad regime in the summer of 2012, and with it control of Syria's precious oilfields.
But the PYD's hopes of staying neutral in the conflict and building an autonomous Kurdish state were dashed when clashes broke out with Syrian rebel forces in the strategic border city of Ras al-Ayn. That encounter quickly escalated into an all-out war between the Kurds and a powerful alliance of jihadist groups, including the al-Qaeda affiliates ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.
In September of 2013, VICE crossed the border into Syria's Kurdish region to document the YPG's counteroffensive against the jihadists, who had struck deep into rural Hassakeh in an attempt to surround and capture Ras al-Ayn. With unparalleled access to the Kurdish and Syrian Christian fighters on the frontlines, we found ourselves witnessing a bitter and almost unreported conflict within the Syrian war, where the Assad regime is a neutral spectator in a life or death struggle between jihadist-led rebels and Kurdish nationalists, pitting village against village and neighbor against neighbor.
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Kurdish Female Fighters - A Day in Syria

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Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world, around ...

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Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world, around 40 million, marginalized with no state of their own. They stretch across an area including Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The only internationally recognized Kurdish entity exists in Iraq with its own regional government, a booming economy, and security forces known as the Peshmerga.
Until 1991, it was illegal to speak Kurdish in public in Turkey. Broadcasting in Kurdish was banned until 2002, and until 2003, parents were forbidden to give their children Kurdish names. Kurdish-language public education is still heavily contested, with many Kurdish children forced to take classes in Turkish, a language they rarely learn at home.
The PKK has moderated its demands ahead of expected peace talks, and jailed leader Abdullah Ocallan has renounced violence and abandoned his goal of a separate state. For his part, Erdogan has advanced peace efforts more than his predecessors, promising long withheld cultural and language rights for Kurds.
But Turkey still has a long way to go before Kurds are treated with proper respect, said Raci Bilici, president of the Diyarbakir branch of the Human Rights Association, a Turkish rights group. The government still uses opaque anti-terrorism laws to oppress and detain Kurds, he adds.

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Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world, around 40 million, marginalized with no state of their own. They stretch across an area including Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The only internationally recognized Kurdish entity exists in Iraq with its own regional government, a booming economy, and security forces known as the Peshmerga.
Until 1991, it was illegal to speak Kurdish in public in Turkey. Broadcasting in Kurdish was banned until 2002, and until 2003, parents were forbidden to give their children Kurdish names. Kurdish-language public education is still heavily contested, with many Kurdish children forced to take classes in Turkish, a language they rarely learn at home.
The PKK has moderated its demands ahead of expected peace talks, and jailed leader Abdullah Ocallan has renounced violence and abandoned his goal of a separate state. For his part, Erdogan has advanced peace efforts more than his predecessors, promising long withheld cultural and language rights for Kurds.
But Turkey still has a long way to go before Kurds are treated with proper respect, said Raci Bilici, president of the Diyarbakir branch of the Human Rights Association, a Turkish rights group. The government still uses opaque anti-terrorism laws to oppress and detain Kurds, he adds.

The Complex History and Relations of the Kurdish YPG, Syria, and US

Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek discusses the history of the PKK, Turkey's brutally violent repression of the Kurds, and the complex relations between the ...

Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek discusses the history of the PKK, Turkey's brutally violent repression of the Kurds, and the complex relations between the YPG, Syria, and US.
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Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek discusses the history of the PKK, Turkey's brutally violent repression of the Kurds, and the complex relations between the YPG, Syria, and US.
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Fighting Islamic State: Big Phil's War | Special Report

PhilCampion, a former SAS soldier and a veteran of just about every major conflict zone in the world, travels to the front line in Syria and Iraq to meet the m...

PhilCampion, a former SAS soldier and a veteran of just about every major conflict zone in the world, travels to the front line in Syria and Iraq to meet the men and women taking the fight to Islamic State.
Known as 'Big Phil', he filmed for Sky with both the YPG and Kurdish Peshmerga, observing their war against a well-equipped and motivated enemy.
He experienced some of the worst battles of his life while embedded with the Kurds and met the all-female fighting units of the YPJ, described as a secret weapon of the war.
Are those fighting Islamic State properly equipped for battle? And is this a fight they can win? Find out in our special report.
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PhilCampion, a former SAS soldier and a veteran of just about every major conflict zone in the world, travels to the front line in Syria and Iraq to meet the men and women taking the fight to Islamic State.
Known as 'Big Phil', he filmed for Sky with both the YPG and Kurdish Peshmerga, observing their war against a well-equipped and motivated enemy.
He experienced some of the worst battles of his life while embedded with the Kurds and met the all-female fighting units of the YPJ, described as a secret weapon of the war.
Are those fighting Islamic State properly equipped for battle? And is this a fight they can win? Find out in our special report.
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Hunting ISIS With Kurdish Female Fighters [Documentary HD/Kurds]

A fierce war is raging in Syria. A unit of fearless female fighters are battling the world’s most brutal enemy, ISIS. And they’re winning. Deep within Kurdish S...

A fierce war is raging in Syria. A unit of fearless female fighters are battling the world’s most brutal enemy, ISIS. And they’re winning. Deep within Kurdish Syria, the YPJ, made up of local women, are fighting the barbaric terrorist movement. Now, six months after she first met them, Tara Brown returns to the war zone to see firsthand just how these extraordinary female fighters are winning the war. They are brave women who have lost family and friends, but won’t let anything weaken their resolve to defeat ISIS.

A fierce war is raging in Syria. A unit of fearless female fighters are battling the world’s most brutal enemy, ISIS. And they’re winning. Deep within Kurdish Syria, the YPJ, made up of local women, are fighting the barbaric terrorist movement. Now, six months after she first met them, Tara Brown returns to the war zone to see firsthand just how these extraordinary female fighters are winning the war. They are brave women who have lost family and friends, but won’t let anything weaken their resolve to defeat ISIS.

Syria War 2018 - Battle of Afrin: Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Firefights and Clashes

*DISCLAIMER* This footage is part of a war archive of the war in Syria and should be viewed as an educational, historical and documentary film about the militar...

*DISCLAIMER* This footage is part of a war archive of the war in Syria and should be viewed as an educational, historical and documentary film about the military conflict. This footage is also to be taken as a raw documentary on the events of the conflict in Syria. The video STRICTLY for informational, documentary and historical purposes only! This footage is not meant to glorify war or violence. The video is not intended to offend anyone. This footage is not meant to be violent in any way. I am only sharing this footage for the purposes of news reporting, sharing important information with the public and educating.
War in Syria 2018 - Battle of Afrin(code-named Operation OliveBranch).
In January 2018, the Turkish military launched a military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin District and the Tell Rifaat Subdistrict in Northern Syria. The offensive is against the Kurdish-led Democratic Union Party in Syria (PYD), its armed wing People's Protection Units (YPG), and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions surrounding the Syrian city of Afrin. Afrin and the surrounding area is claimed by the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria as Afrin Canton, part of its Afrin Region. It is the first major military operation by Turkey in Syria since Operation Euphrates Shield.
The FreeSyrian Army and Turkish forces have made advances against the People’s Protection Units in Afrin. According to the Turkish command, Operation Olive Branch has managed to take control of several villages and strategic locations in the Afrin countryside.
Syrian National Coalition supported the joint operation of the FSA and the Turkish Armed Forces.
Turkey launched an air and ground offensive on the Afrin region, opening a new front in the multi-sided Syrian war to target Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
But in general terms the offensive has not been very successful so far, most of the larger towns in the region, including Afrin itself, remain under YPG control.
Battle for Afrin continues...
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*DISCLAIMER* This footage is part of a war archive of the war in Syria and should be viewed as an educational, historical and documentary film about the military conflict. This footage is also to be taken as a raw documentary on the events of the conflict in Syria. The video STRICTLY for informational, documentary and historical purposes only! This footage is not meant to glorify war or violence. The video is not intended to offend anyone. This footage is not meant to be violent in any way. I am only sharing this footage for the purposes of news reporting, sharing important information with the public and educating.
War in Syria 2018 - Battle of Afrin(code-named Operation OliveBranch).
In January 2018, the Turkish military launched a military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin District and the Tell Rifaat Subdistrict in Northern Syria. The offensive is against the Kurdish-led Democratic Union Party in Syria (PYD), its armed wing People's Protection Units (YPG), and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions surrounding the Syrian city of Afrin. Afrin and the surrounding area is claimed by the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria as Afrin Canton, part of its Afrin Region. It is the first major military operation by Turkey in Syria since Operation Euphrates Shield.
The FreeSyrian Army and Turkish forces have made advances against the People’s Protection Units in Afrin. According to the Turkish command, Operation Olive Branch has managed to take control of several villages and strategic locations in the Afrin countryside.
Syrian National Coalition supported the joint operation of the FSA and the Turkish Armed Forces.
Turkey launched an air and ground offensive on the Afrin region, opening a new front in the multi-sided Syrian war to target Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
But in general terms the offensive has not been very successful so far, most of the larger towns in the region, including Afrin itself, remain under YPG control.
Battle for Afrin continues...
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The road to ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa, has been long and hard. The battle rages in the suburbs of the Syrian city. Improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, sniper fire and grenade-dropping drones have been deployed by the surrounded terrorists.
This film features the stories of fighters in the Kurdish PeopleProtection Units (YPG), as well as European volunteers who joined them. There are also stories of military hospital staff. Dr. Akhiv, a veteran military doctor considers his work a “sacred calling.” Adham, a frontline nurse, joined the field hospital after his brother was killed fighting ISIS. Sema, a Kurdish female commander, left her family to join the fight. “We’re not fighting for a certain nation. Humanity is what we’re fighting for,” she says.
Some Europeans have joined the YPG as volunteers. Rosa left a mundane life in Sweden to fight for women’s rights in Syria. Robin, a volunteer from Germany, got sick of hearing how “someone should do something about” ISIS after every terrorist attack in Europe. He left his girlfriend and a comfortable life to do something about them himself.

The road to ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa, has been long and hard. The battle rages in the suburbs of the Syrian city. Improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, sniper fire and grenade-dropping drones have been deployed by the surrounded terrorists.
This film features the stories of fighters in the Kurdish PeopleProtection Units (YPG), as well as European volunteers who joined them. There are also stories of military hospital staff. Dr. Akhiv, a veteran military doctor considers his work a “sacred calling.” Adham, a frontline nurse, joined the field hospital after his brother was killed fighting ISIS. Sema, a Kurdish female commander, left her family to join the fight. “We’re not fighting for a certain nation. Humanity is what we’re fighting for,” she says.
Some Europeans have joined the YPG as volunteers. Rosa left a mundane life in Sweden to fight for women’s rights in Syria. Robin, a volunteer from Germany, got sick of hearing how “someone should do something about” ISIS after every terrorist attack in Europe. He left his girlfriend and a comfortable life to do something about them himself.

New WorldSummit—Rojava, part I
16-17 Oct. 2015, Dêrik, Canton Cizîrê, Rojava
IV Self-Defense
HusseinShawishPeople’s Protection Units (YPG), Rojava
In the work of revolutionaries Öcalan and Cansiz, the concept of “self-defense” is crucial. This does not just refer to the right to armed struggle in response to military campaigns against Kurdish peoples, such as are perpetrated by the Turkish regime. In relation to the women’s movement for example, self-defense also refers to the need to self-organize and self-educate to gain independence and women and an equal position in society. Self-defense is both about the mentality and the physical right to protect oneself.
The People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) are the self-defense forces of Rojava. Aligned under the SupremeKurdish Committee they follow an internal democratic structure whereby spokespersons and commanders are directly elected by the fighters themselves. Since the start of the Syrian Civil War the YPG and YPJ have defended the people of Rojava from continuous threats from the fundamentalist Islamist organization Islamic State or “Daesh”, most famously in the defense of the city of Kobanê and the rescue of Yazidi communities from Mount Sinjar in South-Kurdistan in 2014. While the YPG and YPJ are aligned, the latter has its own command structure that is decided upon by the autonomous women’s parties and councils in the region. Most recently, the YPG and YPJ were able to create a permanent corridor between the cantons of Cizîrê and Kobanê, which had been separated by fighters of the Islamic State since the beginning of the revolution. At large, self-defense plays a crucial role in the autonomous region, especially in terms of strengthening women’s communities, both in a physical and mental sense.
Hussein Shawish is a member and elected spokesperson of the YPG. Previously he served as the DeputyChair of the Committee for Education of the Cirîzê canton of Rojava.
The New World Summit: Rojava, part I took place in the cultural centre Tev-Cand in Dêrik, Canton Cizîrê, Rojava on 16-17 October 2015. The summit was chaired by Judy Osse. Hussein Shawish' lecture was translated by Berfîn Osman during the summit and subtitled by RodiKhalil and Mazlum Django.
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New WorldSummit—Rojava, part I
16-17 Oct. 2015, Dêrik, Canton Cizîrê, Rojava
IV Self-Defense
HusseinShawishPeople’s Protection Units (YPG), Rojava
In the work of revolutionaries Öcalan and Cansiz, the concept of “self-defense” is crucial. This does not just refer to the right to armed struggle in response to military campaigns against Kurdish peoples, such as are perpetrated by the Turkish regime. In relation to the women’s movement for example, self-defense also refers to the need to self-organize and self-educate to gain independence and women and an equal position in society. Self-defense is both about the mentality and the physical right to protect oneself.
The People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) are the self-defense forces of Rojava. Aligned under the SupremeKurdish Committee they follow an internal democratic structure whereby spokespersons and commanders are directly elected by the fighters themselves. Since the start of the Syrian Civil War the YPG and YPJ have defended the people of Rojava from continuous threats from the fundamentalist Islamist organization Islamic State or “Daesh”, most famously in the defense of the city of Kobanê and the rescue of Yazidi communities from Mount Sinjar in South-Kurdistan in 2014. While the YPG and YPJ are aligned, the latter has its own command structure that is decided upon by the autonomous women’s parties and councils in the region. Most recently, the YPG and YPJ were able to create a permanent corridor between the cantons of Cizîrê and Kobanê, which had been separated by fighters of the Islamic State since the beginning of the revolution. At large, self-defense plays a crucial role in the autonomous region, especially in terms of strengthening women’s communities, both in a physical and mental sense.
Hussein Shawish is a member and elected spokesperson of the YPG. Previously he served as the DeputyChair of the Committee for Education of the Cirîzê canton of Rojava.
The New World Summit: Rojava, part I took place in the cultural centre Tev-Cand in Dêrik, Canton Cizîrê, Rojava on 16-17 October 2015. The summit was chaired by Judy Osse. Hussein Shawish' lecture was translated by Berfîn Osman during the summit and subtitled by RodiKhalil and Mazlum Django.
http://newworldsummit.org/locations/rojava/

BBC Our World - ROJAVA : SYRIA'S SECRET REVOLUTION

Is the Middle East’s newest country a territory called “Rojava”? Out of the chaos of Syria’s civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged an egalitarian, mult...

Is the Middle East’s newest country a territory called “Rojava”? Out of the chaos of Syria’s civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged an egalitarian, multi-ethnic mini-state run on communal lines. But with ISIS Jihadists attacking them at every opportunity — especially around the beleaguered city of Kobane, how long can this idealistic social experiment last? From the frontlines to the refugee camps, Mehran Bozorgnia filmed in Rojava for the BBC'sOur World and has gained exclusive access and a revealing snapshot of Syria’s secret revolution.
COPYRIGHT: Mehran Bozorgnia / Bozorgnia Films / 2014

Is the Middle East’s newest country a territory called “Rojava”? Out of the chaos of Syria’s civil war, mainly Kurdish leftists have forged an egalitarian, multi-ethnic mini-state run on communal lines. But with ISIS Jihadists attacking them at every opportunity — especially around the beleaguered city of Kobane, how long can this idealistic social experiment last? From the frontlines to the refugee camps, Mehran Bozorgnia filmed in Rojava for the BBC'sOur World and has gained exclusive access and a revealing snapshot of Syria’s secret revolution.
COPYRIGHT: Mehran Bozorgnia / Bozorgnia Films / 2014

A brief history of the YPG

The People's Protection Units (YPG) was formed underground in 2011 to defend the people of Rojava against attacks from the SyrianBashar al-Assad regime and other reactionary forces as the war in Syria started.
Today, it is a force of 50,000 people and at the forefront of the revolution in Syria and the region.
Watch this short documentary to learn about the struggle, sacrifices and victories of this amazing force.

17:07

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of...

YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

We are an all-female armed force, formed to push forward women’s role in the protection of our people and revolution in Rojava, Northern Syria. We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People’s Defense Units, practicing self-organization through a communal lifestyle, based on our ideology of direct democracy, ecology and women’s empowerment and freedom.

3:05

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe A...

GoPro HD footage: British YPG fighter in action against ISIS in Syria

Fighting alongside Kurds.
Out of pitch darkness, a searchlight gleamed into life and Joe Akerman realised he was in unimaginable danger.
The light was fixed to the front of an armour-plated Islamic State ‘suicide truck’ carrying ten tons of explosives – and speeding across rocky scrubland straight towards him.
Some months earlier the 37-year-old roofer, angry and frustrated by the horrifying events unfolding in Syria, had volunteered to travel to the war-torn country to fight alongside the Kurds against the ISIS terror group.
Until then, the greatest peril Joe had encountered came when he was replacing roof tiles on blustery days in his home town of Halifax, West Yorkshire. Now he found himself with a specialist Kurdish unit – called Sabotage – operating behind enemy lines on a freezing night in December and being ‘hunted like wild animals’.
Joe recalled: ‘We were sent out to blow up a road near the city of Al-Hawl. I saw the searchlight from some distance away and, like the others, I ran for my life. We knew it was an ISIS truck. This was a tactic they were using more frequently. Their aim is to drive into you and detonate.’
Joe, his commander and two others scattered. ‘We were running towards mounds and rocks, anything that would make it difficult for the truck to follow,’ he said. ‘My heart was pounding. It was getting closer and closer.’
With seconds to spare, help came from above. Behind him came a shattering explosion. His pursuer, only about 450ft away, had been hit by an air strike.
Joe said: ‘The relief was immense. Of all the things I faced out there, the suicide trucks were the worst.’
Last week Joe, a former squaddie, and Jack Holmes, 23, an IT worker from Bournemouth with no military training, flew home after more than a year fighting with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, the militia whose actions in north-eastern Syria have been supported by US-led coalition air strikes.
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31:53

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a hous...

Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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Her War: Women vs. ISIS (RT Documentary)

In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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46:35

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Isl...

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

Young Kurdish Women on Front Line against IS in Syria

A troop of female fighters has become a major force combating Islamic State (IS) extremists in the predominantly Kurdish region of northeast Syria.
Commonly known by its Kurdish acronym, YPJ, the Women's Protection Units is a women-only and pro-Kurdish militia set up in 2012 as a female brigade of the People's Protection Units (YPG), the main Kurdish military forces in Syria.
The group, in tandem with other Syrian Kurdish military forces, has been pushing west from the northeastern city of Hasakah for the past month to repel IS militants from the thin strip of land it controls along the Syrian-Turkish border.
In the ranks of the YPJ, many fighters are in their early twenties or even younger when they were recruited to fight against extremist insurgencies.
The women undergo weeks of military training including basic training on how to use AK-47s, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other heavy weaponry.
Nineteen-year-old Roj Anas is a sniper in the ranks of the YPJ militia.
"First you should steady the rifle and find the balance point, then estimate the range and predict the direction in which an enemy is heading. Suppose you have figured out how far away your enemy is, you take aim and watch how he moves. After you learn about his movement, you shoot. In this way you can always succeed," said Anas, while demonstrating how to use a sniper rifle.
She added that patience is the key to becoming a good sniper and that they usually train for hours or days to learn how to stay concentrated.
Anas said she was in high school before being recruited 18 months ago and trained to be a sniper on the front line. To this day, she still remembers the fear she felt at the moment she realized she would have to fight in the battlefield.
"Back then, I was very afraid and I thought I probably would never come back. We were here for two days before the fighting started and we kept asking each other, 'What are we supposed to do? What should we do when confronting Daesh?' I felt terrified from the bottom of my heart," Anas said, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
But months of fighting has turned her into an experienced sniper, she said, adding that she has lost many companions to the war.
"I remember one time when Daesh was quickly withdrawing and we had conquered almost every part of that region except a school. There was a container filled with explosives and as we charged forward, it exploded. I heard many people screaming. Some of them were killed on the spot. And the saddest thing is, one of my friends died holding my hand," said Anas.
She said that even though they are young, all the fighters have made their wills and are ready to die.
According to official statistics from the YPG, there are currently a few thousand troops in the women's wing, and of the 40,000 to 50,000 Kurdish troops in Syria, about 35 percent are women, most of whom are not married.
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Foreign Volunteers in YPG’s Tactical Medical Unit (TMU)

Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tacti...

Foreign Volunteers in YPG’s Tactical Medical Unit (TMU)

Formed by a group of foreign volunteers within the People’s Defense Units (YPG), the Tactical Medical Unit (TMU) has started to contribute its support to the YPG/YPJ combatants on the frontline of the war against Daesh (ISIS) terrorists in Rojava, northern Syria. Macer Gifford, a former British banker, who first initiated the unit as part of YPG’s medical activities, tells more about why and how he has been involved the liberation front in Rojava:

YPJ We are an autonomous unit of the YPG, the People's Protection Units

People's Protection Units

The People's Protection Units (Kurdish:Yekîneyên Parastina Gel‎, pronounced[jɑkinæjen pɑrɑstinɑ gæl]; YPG), also known as People's Defense Units, are the main armed service of the Kurdish Supreme Committee, the government of Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava). The YPG is primarily Kurdish, but it also recruits Arabs, Turks, and westerners. There are Assyrian/Syriac Christian units integrated into its command structure (Sutoro and Syriac Military Council). The YPG was originally formed in 2004 by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Southern Kurdistan (i.e. northern Iraq) and was transferred to the service of the Kurdish Supreme Committee (which includes the PYD) in 2012. The YPG considers itself a democratic people's army and conducts internal elections as a method of appointing officers.

Women's Protection Units

The Women's Protection Units (YPJ) is the YPG's female brigade, which was set up in 2012. Kurdish media have said that YPJ troops became vital during the Siege of Kobanî.

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Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria: The War of Others

Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, is a German who joined the Islamic State. He's become a household name for many. However, in this war – in which Germany has been directly supplying weapons to the Peschmerga forces since the attacks on Paris and is more than indirectly involved with Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and other Gulf states – hardly anyone is talking about the German civilians in northern Syria that are fighting terror militias.
While the German government sends its Tornado jets to Syria without a mandate under international law, we discovered German civilians, as well as other international volunteers fighting with and assisting Kurdish commandos. With AK-47s in hand, they are trying to halt the advance of the Islamic State and set up their own in its place. They’re trying to promote a societal model in which there’s no death penalty, men and women have equal right, freedom of religion exists. The far-left scene in Germany sees this as the most important leftist political project in the world and has therefore pledged its support.
VICE journalist, Sebastian Weiss, met up with a German ex-soldier and former ForeignLegionnaire, a 19-year-old Canadian fighter, a mother of four from Poland, an ICOR brigade member, German social workers and a 25-year-old from Saarbrücken, who are deployed under the command of the People’s Protection Units, directly on the front and only 50 kilometers from the IS stronghold, Raqqah.
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52:49

Her War: Women vs. ISIS (RT Documentary)

In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women ...

Her War: Women vs. ISIS (RT Documentary)

In the face of the deadly threat posed by the so-called Islamic State, many Kurdish women decide not to leave their survival to fate. Instead, they fight for their lives and their future. Taking up arms, they join the YPG – Kurdish People’s Protection Units that defend their town’s borders from the militants. The enemy fears female warriors. Jihadists believe if they are killed by a woman they will go straight to hell.
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46:35

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Isl...

Why is ISIS fearing Kurds? [Documentary HD]

An award-winning Israeli documentary by Itai Anghel about the war led by Kurds against Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and Iraq. Kurdish freedomfighters, both female and male, from YPG, YPJ, PKK and Peshmerga are the most successful and efficient warriors against the medieval terrorists from the so called Islamic State. Kurds want to set up a liberal, feminist and direct democratic state called Kurdistan, their traditional homeland, in the Middle East. But they are currently brutally opressed and prevented by either dictatorial states like Syria and Iraq or islamist like Turkey and Iran from fulfilling their dream.

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Rojava: Syria's Unknown War

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As Syria's bloody civi...

Rojava: Syria's Unknown War

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As Syria's bloody civil war enters its third year, fighting has reached the country's Kurdish-dominated northeast, a region until recently almost untouched by the conflict. The KurdishPYD party and its YPG militia, which is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in neighboring Turkey, took over control of much of Hassakeh province from the Assad regime in the summer of 2012, and with it control of Syria's precious oilfields.
But the PYD's hopes of staying neutral in the conflict and building an autonomous Kurdish state were dashed when clashes broke out with Syrian rebel forces in the strategic border city of Ras al-Ayn. That encounter quickly escalated into an all-out war between the Kurds and a powerful alliance of jihadist groups, including the al-Qaeda affiliates ISIS and Jabhat al-Nusra.
In September of 2013, VICE crossed the border into Syria's Kurdish region to document the YPG's counteroffensive against the jihadists, who had struck deep into rural Hassakeh in an attempt to surround and capture Ras al-Ayn. With unparalleled access to the Kurdish and Syrian Christian fighters on the frontlines, we found ourselves witnessing a bitter and almost unreported conflict within the Syrian war, where the Assad regime is a neutral spectator in a life or death struggle between jihadist-led rebels and Kurdish nationalists, pitting village against village and neighbor against neighbor.
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YPJ: Women’s Defense Units (Women’s Protection Units) - English/Kurdî

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Kurdish Female Fighters - A Day in Syria

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Kurds are one of the largest ethnic groups in the world, around 40 million, marginalized with no state of their own. They stretch across an area including Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The only internationally recognized Kurdish entity exists in Iraq with its own regional government, a booming economy, and security forces known as the Peshmerga.
Until 1991, it was illegal to speak Kurdish in public in Turkey. Broadcasting in Kurdish was banned until 2002, and until 2003, parents were forbidden to give their children Kurdish names. Kurdish-language public education is still heavily contested, with many Kurdish children forced to take classes in Turkish, a language they rarely learn at home.
The PKK has moderated its demands ahead of expected peace talks, and jailed leader Abdullah Ocallan has renounced violence and abandoned his goal of a separate state. For his part, Erdogan has advanced peace efforts more than his predecessors, promising long withheld cultural and language rights for Kurds.
But Turkey still has a long way to go before Kurds are treated with proper respect, said Raci Bilici, president of the Diyarbakir branch of the Human Rights Association, a Turkish rights group. The government still uses opaque anti-terrorism laws to oppress and detain Kurds, he adds.

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The Complex History and Relations of the Kurdish YPG, Syria, and US

Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek discusses the history of the PKK, Turkey's brutally v...

The Complex History and Relations of the Kurdish YPG, Syria, and US

Turkish-Kurdish journalist Ali Ornek discusses the history of the PKK, Turkey's brutally violent repression of the Kurds, and the complex relations between the YPG, Syria, and US.
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Fighting Islamic State: Big Phil's War | Special Report

PhilCampion, a former SAS soldier and a veteran of just about every major conflict zone in the world, travels to the front line in Syria and Iraq to meet the men and women taking the fight to Islamic State.
Known as 'Big Phil', he filmed for Sky with both the YPG and Kurdish Peshmerga, observing their war against a well-equipped and motivated enemy.
He experienced some of the worst battles of his life while embedded with the Kurds and met the all-female fighting units of the YPJ, described as a secret weapon of the war.
Are those fighting Islamic State properly equipped for battle? And is this a fight they can win? Find out in our special report.
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Hunting ISIS With Kurdish Female Fighters [Documentary HD/Kurds]

A fierce war is raging in Syria. A unit of fearless female fighters are battling the world...

Hunting ISIS With Kurdish Female Fighters [Documentary HD/Kurds]

A fierce war is raging in Syria. A unit of fearless female fighters are battling the world’s most brutal enemy, ISIS. And they’re winning. Deep within Kurdish Syria, the YPJ, made up of local women, are fighting the barbaric terrorist movement. Now, six months after she first met them, Tara Brown returns to the war zone to see firsthand just how these extraordinary female fighters are winning the war. They are brave women who have lost family and friends, but won’t let anything weaken their resolve to defeat ISIS.

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Syria War 2018 - Battle of Afrin: Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Firefights and Clashes

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Syria War 2018 - Battle of Afrin: Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army in Firefights and Clashes

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War in Syria 2018 - Battle of Afrin(code-named Operation OliveBranch).
In January 2018, the Turkish military launched a military operation in the Kurdish-controlled Afrin District and the Tell Rifaat Subdistrict in Northern Syria. The offensive is against the Kurdish-led Democratic Union Party in Syria (PYD), its armed wing People's Protection Units (YPG), and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) positions surrounding the Syrian city of Afrin. Afrin and the surrounding area is claimed by the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria as Afrin Canton, part of its Afrin Region. It is the first major military operation by Turkey in Syria since Operation Euphrates Shield.
The FreeSyrian Army and Turkish forces have made advances against the People’s Protection Units in Afrin. According to the Turkish command, Operation Olive Branch has managed to take control of several villages and strategic locations in the Afrin countryside.
Syrian National Coalition supported the joint operation of the FSA and the Turkish Armed Forces.
Turkey launched an air and ground offensive on the Afrin region, opening a new front in the multi-sided Syrian war to target Kurdish fighters in northern Syria.
But in general terms the offensive has not been very successful so far, most of the larger towns in the region, including Afrin itself, remain under YPG control.
Battle for Afrin continues...
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The road to ISIS’ self-proclaimed capital, Raqqa, has been long and hard. The battle rages in the suburbs of the Syrian city. Improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers, sniper fire and grenade-dropping drones have been deployed by the surrounded terrorists.
This film features the stories of fighters in the Kurdish PeopleProtection Units (YPG), as well as European volunteers who joined them. There are also stories of military hospital staff. Dr. Akhiv, a veteran military doctor considers his work a “sacred calling.” Adham, a frontline nurse, joined the field hospital after his brother was killed fighting ISIS. Sema, a Kurdish female commander, left her family to join the fight. “We’re not fighting for a certain nation. Humanity is what we’re fighting for,” she says.
Some Europeans have joined the YPG as volunteers. Rosa left a mundane life in Sweden to fight for women’s rights in Syria. Robin, a volunteer from Germany, got sick of hearing how “someone should do something about” ISIS after every terrorist attack in Europe. He left his girlfriend and a comfortable life to do something about them himself.

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